You only get 1 attempt at each lift. If you miss your lift you get 0 lbs for that round.

Post total lbs lifted and total double unders to comments.

3 Attempts at:Max Reps Push-UpsMax Reps Strict Chin-Ups

Rest no more than 1 minute between each of the 6 sets. Hold the top of each push-up for a 2 count. If you don't have at least 5 strict push-ups and 3 strict chin-ups you'll scale to 3x10 of each with appropriate assists. Focus on perfect shoulder position at the top and bottom of each rep.

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Dr. Fiddler Takes To The Sea"I'm glad we train as hard as we do at CFSBK. Otherwise, I don't know if I would've been able to summon the strength to paddle out past the breaking waves in Playa Guiones, Nosara."

CFSBK Book Club Reminder

For their second go-around, the CFSBK Book Club has chosen "The Sense of Ending" by J. Barnes for their read. If you'd like to join in, simply pick up the book and get reading. The club will be meeting at a bar or coffee shop to discuss the book on April 29th. About a week before the meet up an email will be sent out with questions about the text to consider before meeting up. To get on the email list for this and future events, please email Peggy at pjeanlouis1(at)gmail(dot)com

Book Description from AmazonThis intense new novel follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he has never much thought about—until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance, one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. Tony Webster thought he’d left all this behind as he built a life for himself, and by now his marriage and family and career have fallen into an amicable divorce and retirement. But he is then presented with a mysterious legacy that obliges him to reconsider a variety of things he thought he’d understood all along, and to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world.

A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single sitting, with stunning psychological and emotional depth and sophistication, The Sense of an Ending is a brilliant new chapter in Julian Barnes’s oeuvre.

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Reader Comments (19)

Squat: 325x4, failed on 5A lot better than the disaster last week, but still disappointed I didn't match my 5RM PR. Not sure what the deal is with my squat, but things are slightly amiss at max effort weights.

Bench: 205x5 (PR)I worked on descending faster and guess what? It's a lot easier to get 5 reps that way.

Deadlift: 365x3 (PR)First time doing reps at this weight. Hard but OK.

This morning was great - I likie the WOD. 7am with Coach Josh and the usual pirates, good times. I also really like that yet again I made up my own version and also added the "miss your lift you get 0" to somehow "if I miss a DU then start back at 0" - le sigh.

This WOD was fun (super fun actually) however, counting up the points was hard (super hard actually).

I set a new PR with an 85# Clean & Jerk - previously the most I had ever jerked was 75# before I hurt my shoulder. May I just say I am SO happy to be able to go overhead again! I was nothing but smiles as I painlessly completed all 5 jerks today :)

Also I got a PR on push ups - 7 strict on the first round. The most I had ever done was 3 previously. VERY exciting!

Fun times with the awesome 7 o'clockers today :)

p.s. does anyone know who made those banana brownies at the paleo potlucks? Or where I can find the recipe?

Not gonna do the math on that WOD...I will just say that I wish I had gone more aggressively on the C&J. I could absolutely have gone up past 78 if I'd put more weights at my station. I thought jumping rope was going to wear me out for cleans, but it really didn't. Then again, I felt slightly nauseated to the point of dizziness at one point during the C&J warmups, so going conservatively might have been the smart thing to do. Who knows...

Thanks to Josh for being magical, Margie for getting me to do my first push up ever back in February, and to Dave - how's your head? The Jewish Long Island mother instinct in me is worried, even though I was raised Irish Catholic and I don't have children...

The weights on the squat are feeling more comfortable as my body gets back into the rhythm. The weight on the bench was ok but my left shoulder is acting up as usual. At some point I'll have to figure out a fix for it but one problem at a time for now. The power cleans felt ok and the looked fine on video so i guess we'll keep moving. Damn chins were hard as hell, my arms were fried. Still not eating enough, even though I'm eating more than before. The back is feeling ok, did some acupuncture and massage last Friday and it seemed to help. Will add it to the list

Today was a great workout for me, especially after Samir's timely conversation regarding cleans. I really focused on my form and actually feel like I got somewhere with it today. I really tried to be patient so that the bar hit the proper jumping position, which feels (mentally) slow, but it felt better than the last time we did cleans 2 weeks ago, so I just need to learn that patience.

DU: 55,65,58,42,47 = 267C&J: 115, 125, 135, 140, 145 = 660

Oh, and I musta been blessed by the double under fairy or something today, it was magical. I strung together 46 in one go, which is about 20 more than I've ever done. Not sure what clicked, but I really hope that I can hold onto it. I was pretty jazzed.

The end of the workout was just a reminder about how I need to work on my pushups and chins. le sigh. Pushups:14, 10, 6Chins: 3, 2, 2